A Good Book for the Beach
July 21, 2008
I just finished reading a new book about skin care that anyone should read who wants to learn more about their skin and sort through the confusion about skin care. That’s pretty much everyone, so go out and get this book! …
“The New Science of Perfect Skin” by Daniel Yarosh, PH.D., Broadway Books, New York, 2008.
The author, Daniel Yarosh, is the brains behind AGI Dermatics, a company that makes a high-end line of skin care products that goes by the name of Remergent (No , I don’t carry this product line, but dermatologist Gary Novatt, M.D. here in Santa Barbara does). Although understandably supportive of his own line of products, and others containing AGI Dermatic’s compounds, Yarosh is not over the top about it, and has good (and bad) things to say about many other competing products as well. He explains the science of skin care well, on a level that is easily understandable, and pulls no punches when commenting on many of the too-good-to-b